PRACTICE PRODUCTIONS including PRELIM

 Preliminary Task: Continuity task

We were instructed to film and edit a video with the following scenario: a character entering a room through a door and engages in dialogue with a second person. We were required to film at least 20 different shots and include these technical elements: shot/reverse shot, 180 degree rule and match on action which are all essential parts of continuity editing. 

We wanted to recreate the iconic opening of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). It begins with a birds eye view of the city of Phoenix, Arizona. The camera pans across the city and shows the houses and cars, to create mise-en-scene. The camera begins moving in and focuses on a building, zooming until it reaches a window that leads the viewer into the opening interactions of the protagonists. The blinds are closed, leaving only a small gap in which the viewer looks into. 

My first cut:

Preliminary Task: editing with genre identifiers

After looking at some clear conventions of different film genres in my VODCAST, I was instructed to edit my PRELIM VIDEO with key genre identifiers in a genre of my choice. I have chosen to explore the key genre identifiers of HORROR for this task: